DECEMBER DAILY IS ALMOST FINISHED....

Just a few more days to go!!!

I only take my Dec Daily through to Boxing Day

So not long now!!

I'm really thrilled how its turning out especially in the Prima Canvas Album.

Its probably a little bit too big in comparison to my smaller cardboard and paper one last year which was quicker to get each page done... but.... on the otherhand - working with the canvas pages and plastic sleeve pages has given opportunity for much scope and varied fun creative-wise!!

Having said that - next years will be smaller!! LOL!

Day 18

Meaghan's Graduation - waiting to go in

and afterwards we called into friends place where Paige was quite taken with their little puppy!

Day 19

Paige performs in her last Christmas Concert and later we had two BBQ's to attend

Here the girls are opening their presents in a big swap we do among the parents and kids.

Day 20

Not forgetting our sweet Blackie - who is a big scaredy-cat!

Day 21

And our very ancient Cosmo who is feeling very much his age at the moment

I've got some lovely pages to complete in the next couple of days!!

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SCRAP THAT POETRY

Has two ofthe most amazing wonderful poems to scrap for December...

Here's the first one - Challenge 31 (which I've completed below)

and here's the second one - Challenge 32 (not done yet - but will try to!)

 - both due Jan 14th.

Paige in her last Christmas dance - I thought this paper was fabulous to scrap about the candle... and really, the photo came later - it was just the perfect colour and suited the last one thing on our Christmas committment list!!

Caught again...

Cosmo catnapping!

DONT YOU JUST LOVE SCRAPPING CHRISTMAS???

 I do!

So I'll overdose myself with it this month and be very happy to move on when its over!

But for now....

some more

DECEMBER DAILY PAGES!

Hannah and Paige with their wonderful singing teacher.

They have been learning from her for about 8 years now.

Their last singing concert for the year.

I added in more pages by gluing extra pages onto the canvas to flap open.

The day I made up a heap of more cards and this is a flapped open page!

Thought my kitchen looked rather festive so took a pic!

this is the top of the extra glued in page.

Couldnt go without adding in a page of my finches

Presents for my friends at Art Class and the last class for the year.

My dd delivering her bound thesis to the uni!

I've wanted to scrap these pics for so long..

Santa passing our house ringing a bell - they raced out the door and I raced for my camera!

This was in our old house 

Using very old papers and dont even know what brand they are!

A very little Hannah accepting a little gift from Santa

Hope your Christmas preparations are underway!



CHRISTMAS PROJECTS

More December Daily Pages!!

Poor Cosmo - went to the vet and on antibiotics... and had a saline flush through!

He's looking a bit better now. (he's 18yrs)

Trimming the Tree!

 Paige had a violin concert and Nan came to visit

More to come.... catching up well!

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A LINO PRINT TUTORIAL

Every year I try do my Christmas Cards with Lino cut printing.

Here's how I make them...

These tools to chisel out the lino

You also have to work out what you want printed on the page the negative or the positive...

the chiseled put bits are the negative.

Load up the roller with paint

Roll it over the lino cut

Until its all covered

Then using a brayer (or you can press down with your hands) roll it over the upturned lino cut

Here I did it on silver foil paper and it came out a treat  (sorry about the flash glare but it does look wonderful in real life)

Of course - choose any colour.  Run the lino cut under water to clean and load up again with paint.

A card with red

And a card with green

And here is another cut I did in the background

And here in a different colour

And a again...

My bird Lino cut...

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And to finish off with a LO... (non christmassy!)

Paige as a six yr old.



MORE PAGES FOR DEC DAILY!!

LOL!  I had to giggle when I read a comment left on my last post from Kathie who thought at first that my mention of DD (dec Daily) .........

' "DD" to mean that you'd packed away your daughter with the christmas decorations'

Thats so funny, and yes, now that I read what I wrote can definitely see that YES it will be lovely to see my DD when I get my Christmas decorations out each year!!!

Tee hee!!

Here's some more of my pages!!!  (Slowly catching up!)

Its just a mixture of what goes on everyday - bits and pieces!

Getting the make-up and costumes ready

 Theatre preparation- thats my busy little desk!

 Performing - Paige as a Pirate and Mrs Darling

 Hannah as Capt Hook

 Hannah performing with the adults, and Paige with the children

for the 50th Anniversary Gala of our Musical Society

 Paige's 14th birthday

 Hannah's very loved piano teacher

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Still very much enjoying the fabulous challenges over at Bon's

This is the sketch challenge you can find it here

Paige and Hannah playing up for the camera!!

This is Bon's 'Room of the Month'  - really love this one!

You can find the inspiration here!

THis is Hannah and Paige when they were 10 & 8yrs dressed as Snow Flakes for a Calendar Photo Shoot.

This was a moment of relaxation so I snapped a pic!

I'll be back with more when I get a chance!!!

Soooo much to scrap!

And Christmas to get ready!!

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I'M ON HOLIDAYS!! YAY!!! and a start on my DEC DAILY!!

Its been a long haul  getting to the finish post with work, and now its time to relax, catch up on Christmas preparations, visit blogs and get stuck into my Dec Daily!  Being a week behind is okay - I've got to catch up!

Last year I packed away my last DD with all the decorations and its been such a delight to get it out and look through it again!  Its made way for more determination to get another done for this year and I've picked a Prima Canvas Album to play with.  Got to say -WHAT FUN!  I just love the time I'm putting into this!  Only the cover and Dec 1st is finished.... but I'll plug on!! 

The cover is misted (looks a bit pink here but it is more red in real life)

Used some alphas as a mask for the 'christmas' word - gathered some vintage sparkly fabric and gathered it and added the leaf ribbon, deers, used some beading and added some prima vines

 And the Dec 1st - was my Art Class - where I've been doing lino cut and prints, and this one has been used for my Christmas cards this year.  I'm not sure yet how I'll do the inside cover of my DD, I'll look at that when all the pages are completed.   Ugh the colour is off for some reason... probably the crappy stormy weather we are having - hopeless for photographing in!  The bird print is maroon - not purple and the '1st is supposed to be dark gray! 

A gorgeous pic of Hannah with her new haircut - and some lovely bits from Tallulah!

AUSSIE SCRAP JACKED

Sadly this is the last month that Lou Nelson is running ASJ.  She is one of the most talented scrappers I admire.  She totally brings ART to scrapping!!   Our task was to choose our own Scrap Artist to jack and unbeknown to Lou.... we all ganged up and jacked her!!  (ASJ has some news coming up - and I cant wait to spill the beans.... ) Watch this space!

This was my interpretation of one of Lou's jacks....

And go here to see the details!

'Let's Get Shabby' had a Card Rak recently - and here are the ones I made!

The winners have been announced.... you can find them here.

Oooh oooh oooh!!  Look at these lovelies I bought from Tallulah Belles!

Tallulah Belles is sponsoring 'Let's Get Shabby' for our December Challenge.  

Happy Scrappin!

123 CHALLENGE AND TISSUE PAPER TUTORIAL

 

 

The December criteria is up over at 123 Challenge..

 

And I've done a tutorial about working with tissue paper over at 123!

 

 

COLOUR – Pink

WORD – ‘Oh’

TECHNIQUE – Tissue Paper

 

Working with tissue paper adds texture, colour and dimension to your projects especially if it’s scrunched and crinkle a little bit.  Its great for recycling  - how much of this do we accumulate!  And it can be torn and painted and misted!

 

 

 

STEP ONE

Find a piece of tissue paper suitable for your project.  This pink piece will cover most of the 12x12 area leaving kind of a white border right the way around.

 

 

 

 

STEP TWO

 

I’ve used a tape runner over the size of the area I want covered. You could use glue but try ‘hit and miss’ so that the tissue doesn’t stick completely flat to your background paper.

STEP THREE

  Work it so it puckers a bit.

 

 

 

STEP FOUR

 Smooth it down a bit – and it should end up looking like this.

 

 

 

 

STEP FIVE

 You could give it a touch of paint

 

 

 

 

STEP SIX

 Or try misting!

 

 

 

 

 

STEP SEVEN

 Layer on embellishments.

Note:

You can use the same technique with smaller pieces of tissue paper to mount a photo…  or in strips similar to how you would use trim. 

Using tissue from old dressmaking patterns work a treat too!

 

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Bon's Nov POTM challenge! Got it in just in time last night into their gallery!

Fabulous Basic Grey -Olivia!

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At the moment I'm in the middle of a production of
'Peter Pan'

This was the newspaper photo with Hannah as Capt Hook!

Its taken out an unmeasurable amount of time the last few months, so after this weekend -

I'll get my life back

and

be on holidays and I can scrap and blog hop until my hearts content!!!!

YAY!